ULTRA RADICAL LIBERAL RAG CONTINUES ERRANT WAYS

I have to congratulate the Washington Post for its recent
foray into researching the incidence of citizen deaths at the hands of the
police.It is an effort that stems from
the lack of collected data on such events and also the fact that there is no
national data base that can be drawn upon for cross jurisdictional consistency
since the standards and guidelines for reporting such events are all over the
map.As of today, there have been –
according to the Post – an estimated 537 deaths of people at the hands of
police officers.

Recent shootings were analyzed by a panel consisting of two ex-cops, a training
instructor with the Los Angeles Police Department and a professor of
Criminology from the University of South Carolina.Published in today’s Post are their analyses
of the five incidents including the deaths of Tamir Rice, Mario Woods, Charles
Kinsey, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.Here’s their analysis of the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice:

Alpert:The problem starts
with the transfer of knowledge. The [911] caller is clearly saying, it’s a
child. That it’s near a youth center. That it looks like a toy gun. None of
that information got to the officers. The dispatcher put these officers in a
horrible position.

22-26 seconds into Rice shooting

Lim:They come in so
quick. The passenger officer is forced to engage with the suspect as soon as he
gets there.

Alpert:Why would you drive
up so close? Why not park on the street, take cover, try to engage this person?
Try to negotiate. If that was a real gun, and the person wanted to shoot
someone, the passenger in the patrol car would have been dead.

McCarthy:You stop about 40
feet away, you verbalize, and use the vehicle as partial cover. If an officer takes
total cover he can’t see what the suspect is doing. At 30, 40 feet away, even
if they needed to shoot, they are trained, the officers would be able to be
very accurate. The suspect, if he had a real gun, probably would not be able to
be so accurate. There is clearly a problem with training.

Klinger:You see the patrol
car is moving at a pace where it cannot stop short. Why are you driving up so
close? That is the core issue. You see Mr. Rice start to approach the vehicle.
You have a situation where one police officer makes a really poor decision
about the placement of the vehicle, and then he puts his partner in a no-win
situation. It appears as if Mr. Rice is withdrawing a gun and the shooting
happens. I cannot blame any officer who is mere feet away from someone who is
in the process of withdrawing a gun.

The city of Cleveland settled with the Tamir Rice family for
$6 million. The officers involved in the incident have not been charged.

Here’s the analysis of the shooting of Philando Castile:

Philando Castile

Philando Castile video on July 6 in Falcon Heights, Minn.

Lim:I would have
probably got him out of the car. I don’t know where the gun is at. This would
allow me to get more control over the situation. You have too many unknowns to
walk up on him that close. Being right beside the window like that makes him
too overexposed. He should have taken cover behind the patrol car. He should
have slowed things down. When someone has a gun, you need to be extra vigilant
in using cover effectively.

Alpert:If he is responding
to a robbery suspect, it’s hard to understand why he would place himself in
front of the window like that. You can approach at an angle so you aren’t in
the immediate line of fire. We don’t know exactly what [the officer] was
responding to. We don’t know what was said. There seem to be other options, but
without knowing the full details of what the officer knew, it’s hard to say. ... The consistent
theme is you have him put his hands in a position where he can’t reach for a
weapon.

McCarthy:This individual fit
the description of a very dangerous suspect, who was believed to be armed. Then
the officer walks up on the car. That’s a tactical error. I would get the male
suspect out of the car; I’m using my patrol car as partial cover. I’m 40 feet
away, giving verbal commands, telling him to get out of the car. I would ask
him to get face down on the ground, facing away from the officer. Then you wait
for backup. Once he walks up on the car, he puts himself in a bad spot. ... I hate seeing a
guy pointing a gun in the car in the direction of the kid. The officer’s safety
doesn’t come before the safety of the child in the back seat of the car. ... To me, the officer
appears to be out of control emotionally.

Klinger:We are now learning
that they thought he was a potential robbery suspect, which has me scratching
my head even more now. You don’t walk up to the car under those circumstances.
You just don’t. If I see a passenger and a child in the back seat, I’m going to
keep my distance. I’m going to ask him to step out of the vehicle. I’d have him
come out, pat him down. ... There is a lot we don’t know. We don’t see the actual
shooting. And, with the moments after, that are recorded, we are hearing two
different narratives about what went down. What happened before is the $64,000
question.

The Philando Castile shooting is under investigation.

In reading the article (and I recommend that you do) I
couldn’t help noting that in virtually every case the folks reviewing these
cases faulted the police for not employing standard operating procedures when
faced with threats and noted the lack of de-escalation procedures in nearly all
cases.This really is disturbing.It calls into question what kind of
“training” police officers receive and just how effective it might be.Most of these cases – if not all – were not
cases where the police officers involved were being fired at by the “suspect,”
weren’t in imminent danger of losing their lives and weren’t in situations that
were so fraught with danger that demanded that shooting the suspect was the
clear and only option.It’s clear to me
that of the five cases reviewed, the deaths of these five
citizens need not have happened.

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